Electoral district of Hammond

Hammond is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is named after Ruby Hammond, the first indigenous woman to stand for the Federal Parliament. Hammond is a rural electorate east and south-east of Adelaide, covering 18,091 km² (6,985 sq mi) in the east and upper south-east of the state, and takes in the towns of Callington, Cambrai, Coomandook, Karoonda, Langhorne Creek, Mannum, Nildottie, Peake, Pinnaroo, Purnong and Tailem Bend.

Hammond South Australia—House of Assembly
Electoral district of Hammond (green) in South Australia
State	South Australia
Created	1997
MP	Adrian Pederick
Party	Liberal Party of Australia (SA)
Namesake	Ruby Hammond
Electors	25,023 (2018)
Area	18,091 km2 (6,985.0 sq mi)
Demographic	Rural
Coordinates	35°18′44″S 139°25′40″E
Electorates around Hammond: Schubert Chaffey Victoria Morialta Kavel Heysen Hammond Victoria Finniss MacKillop Victoria
Footnotes
nearby electorates[1]

Hammond was created in the 1994 redistribution as a replacement for the electoral district of Ridley, and was first contested at the 1997 election. As it covers a largely conservative rural area, it was easily won by maverick Liberal member Peter Lewis, the former member for Ridley. Lewis briefly and unsuccessfully tried to have the electorate renamed in 1998 on the basis that Ruby Hammond had few ties to the electorate, proposing the revival of the name Murray-Mallee (which had covered most of Hammond's territory from 1985 to 1993), or if a ceremonial name was required, Unaipon, in honour of indigenous writer, preacher and inventor David Unaipon. Lewis was expelled from the Liberal Party in 2000, and successfully recontested the electorate as an independent at the 2002 election, depriving the Liberals of what would have been a safe seat. Lewis backed Labor to form government and was named as Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly in return for his support.

Lewis attempted unsuccessfully to shift to the Legislative Council when it became clear that he had little-to-no chance of retaining the electorate at the 2006 election. Liberal Adrian Pederick reclaimed the seat for the Liberals at that election, picking up a swing large enough to revert Hammond to its traditional status as a comfortably safe Liberal seat. Pederick has held the seat without serious difficulty since then. In 2022, the seat became marginal with Pederick only holding it with a 5% margin.

Members for Hammond

Member		Party	Term
	Peter Lewis	Liberal	1997–2000
		Independent	2000–2006
	Adrian Pederick	Liberal	2006–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Hammond

2022 South Australian state election: Hammond

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Adrian Pederick	9,130	40.5	−9.0
	Labor	Belinda Owens	5,244	23.3	+6.2
	Independent	Airlie Keen	3,550	15.7	+15.7
	One Nation	Tonya Scott	1,548	6.9	+6.9
	Greens	Timothy White	1,377	6.1	+0.5
	Family First	Cameron Lock	979	4.3	+4.3
	National	John Illingworth	720	3.2	+3.2
Total formal votes			22,548	95.8
Informal votes			985	4.2
Turnout			23,533	87.8
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Adrian Pederick	12,431	55.1	−11.7
	Labor	Belinda Owens	10,117	44.9	+11.7
	Liberal hold		Swing	−11.7

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 South Australian state election (House of Assembly) § Hammond.[edit]

Notes

1. Electoral District of Hammond (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

References

• ECSA profile for Hammond: 2018
• ABC profile for Hammond: 2018
• Poll Bludger profile for Hammond: 2018